Beloved Enemy was inspired by Charles Levinson's exposé of the multinationals and their puppet governments in the book Vodka Cola. Beloved Enemy is a disturbing view of the machinations of a multinational corporation whose amoral (and chillingly realistic) tycoons wheel and deal from West to East and back again. Laser technology makes the so-called Iron Curtain a permeable thing. The closure of a tire-manufacturing plant in the UK and the opening of another one in Russia doesn't sound, on the face of it, like a riveting story subject but Alan Clarke and writer David Leland ensure that it is, and controversial as well, with the inevitable compromised British MP bringing the story close to home...or Home Office.